Regulating the taking of wildlife has been a traditional function of government in this country since the pilgrims, In fact in the Massachusetts Constitution there is a article that requires the state to manage the natural resources.
So the Government does have business in regulating trapping, to manage the resource for its most potential and worth. What we are dealing with in this case is letting emotional, uneducated folks in regards to resource management, the ability to change the law regardless of what the obvious results will be.
As to the neg rep, like I said I was full filling a promise.